Apricot-cutter.



R. GOOD.

APRICOT CUTTER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 24, 1905 INVENTOR 2. Good.

ATTORNEYS PATENTED JUNE 2, 1908 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT GOOD, OF EDEN VALE, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN JONES, OF

EDEN VALE,

CALIFORNIA.

Araroorcu'r'rna.

Patented June 2, 1908.

To, all whom it may. concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT Goon, 'a.citizen of the United States, residing at Eden Vale, in the county of Santa Clara and State of California, have invented a new and useful. Improvement in an Apricot-Cutter, of which the following is a s ecification.

features of construction herein described,

pointed out in the claims and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device attached to the edge of the tray. Fig. 2 is a vertical side elevation of my cutter. Fig. 3 is a front edge view of the cutter. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the clamping member, to WlllCh the cutter is attached.

Inthese drawings, A represents a tray, to which is secured a clamp B, by means of a, set screw B, the clamp and set screw being of the usual form of construction. The clamp B, carries upwardly extending lugs B between which are riveted or otherwise secured, a thin steel plate, O, projecting forwardly in advance of the tray. This plate is bifurcated forming two cutting blades C, in vertical alinement, the lower blade rojecting forwardly and in substantially a orizontal plane and the upper blade projecting forwardly and upwardly. Adjacent their oint of juncture, the cutting edges of the bla e O, are connected by a circular edge C whereby the space between the inner end portions of the blades is slightly enlarged as' clearly [shown in'Figs. l and 2.

The clam ing member ma be very read' ily attache to the tray an as readily removed to another tray.

In use the apricot is pressed between'the blades O, the upper blade cutting into the apricot to the pit and the lower blade coacting therewith and cutting upon the op 0- site side. One-half of the fruit is thus sit in each hand of the operator and the stone drops therefrom into any suitable receptacle arranged in advance ofthe tray. This device can be used upon fruit of any size as it will be obvious that in cutting there is first an inward and downward motion as the fruit is passed between the blades and an outer motion, as it is drawn back, and during the first motion, the upper blade will cut to the pit, and as the fruit 1s drawn out, it is pressed against the lower blade, which also cuts to the pit.

By reason of the enlargement, due to the circular edge C the pit will always fall clear of the blades, and by reason of the blades projectin in advance of the tray, the pit will also fall 0 ear of the tray.

The operation of cutting, is therefore, al-

ways much simplified, as it is simply necessary to pass the fruit into and out of engagement wlth the blades and then drop the two halves into the tray A, thus avoiding the second handling of the fruit.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A device of the kind described comprising a clamp, parallel lugs carried by the clamp,

and a bifurcated plate fixed between the said lugs, and having two fixed, diverging and forwardly extending cutting blades.

. ROBERT GOOD.

Witnesses:

JOHN N. MARTIN, WM. COBB. 

